My Noble Princes and my Beauty Queens

Summer being obviously here with tropical nights, bright sunshine already around 4 a.m. leads to all my fur angels spending less time on the roof terrace and looking for a cool resting place on the ground floor terrace. Luckily they are happy to share, though like us they have their special friends, family/community members with which they get on better than with others. Playing hide and seek or a bit of fighting is all part of the game. Newcomers are sometimes very quiet and shy or a bit aggressive in order to make clear they don't want to be messed around, this may exclude or include me. Fancy being put in a box and brought to a strange place with strangers living there. Wouldn't we also feel insecure? Some cats obviously would love to be the "only child" while others are happy to have playmates and all love and seek our human company. We never feel alone. Great having these amazing little treasures wanting to cuddle, even telling us to continue to massage their beautiful fur. They have their own language and know how to communicate. I learnt to understand their limited "vocabulary" (isn't Trump's also rather limited?). The famous "meau/miau" cats only use as a call for help.  Alfonso a black and white street tomcat likes to have his breakfast sitting underneath the yucca palm tree in front of the entrance door and demands to be hand fed, asking for more after each bite. Some cats make a sound while eating, seems to be a comment like "delicious". Lovely Honey appears to be able to read my thoughts. 

She likes to spend part of the day outside. Lately when I open the door to call her I find her right in front of my entrance door, I may add it is not always at the same time. Bijoux (born in May 2013) recently lost a lot of weight. She had a lot of teeth, gum and kidney problems, following a special kidney diet, the later improved but she may have liver problems now, the vet informed us. Bijoux appears to feel depressed, hardly moves about. Cuddling and massaging she enjoys all the more, she can't get enough of it and it encourages her to eat and regain her will to live. After our precious, very special darling Felicitas passed away, her close friend Lilly, our other black lady, started to loose weight and take less interest in cuddling. Whenever a cat  changes her habit there is usually more behind it than one may at first suspect, it can be a sign of health problems. Unfortunately I can't save all. It is very difficult to cut my expenditures with those beauty queens and gorgeous princes looking at me with their blue, green, yellow or amber coloured eyes. Those without shelter coming to my door tell me they are also hungry, two approx. 3 months old decided to live underneath my yucca palm trees, considering this the second best to living indoors. And yes I try to provide for all of them as best as possible, more important than having a car or holidays. We are no longer planning to do a lot of travelling on the African continent and I am grateful my husband accepts this and thank heaven he too loves fur angles, our precious treasures.